Religion and Choosing to End Medical Care

Deeply Religious Parents Often Reluctant to Cease Medical Care

Liz Neporent

ABC News

August 14, 2012

When a child is seriously ill or injured, parents understandably move heaven and earth to save them. However, a new study has found that sometimes deeply religious families test the limits of medical science by asking doctors to go to extremes to prolong life.

Links:

• Religion. Healthcare Policy. Do the Twain Meet?, Rosemary Flanigan, June 24, 2009
• Religion and Medicine: Compatible?, Farr Curlin, MD and John Lantos, MD, May 14, 2009